Whole Grain Oats
Whole Grain Oats appears in 2,327 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Whole Grain Oats appears in 2,327 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 2,327
- catalogued products
- #365
- usage rank of 247,206
- 305
- named brands represented
- 13%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
Whole Grain Oats sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#365 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #365
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 13%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 2,327 products listing it (mean slot 4.0). Whole Grain Oats usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Whole Grain Oats spans 305 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 10 Grain Hot Cereal; 100% Natural Granola; 100% Natural Granola when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
305 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 1952 of 2281 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Whole Grain Oats
Across the 2,327 products on this site that list Whole Grain Oats, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Whole Grain Oats products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 203 | 8.7% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 106 | 4.6% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 88 | 3.8% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 55 | 2.4% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 36 | 1.5% | 4.8% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Whole Grain Oats
Products Containing Whole Grain Oats
High-volume slice (16 of 2,327) for products naming Whole Grain Oats:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Glucose”)
Top-decile company for Whole Grain Oats: 2,327 listings averaging 96.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Glucose · Sodium Lactate · Colors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Whole Grain Oats record
Start from Whole Grain Oats's 2,327 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Whole Grain Oats to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Whole Grain Oats
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Whole Grain Oats? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Whole Grain Oats, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#365 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Whole Grain Oats? ▼
Whole Grain Oats ranks in the top decile by product count (#365 of 247,206), appearing in 2,327 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Whole Grain Oats so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Whole Grain Oats appears in 2,327 products (#365 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Whole Grain Oats). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.